A public lecture at ANU
ANU scheduled Derek to discuss the making of his PFAS investigation and what he has learned about choosing topics, structuring videos and responding to criticism.
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Derek Muller
Derek Muller is the creator of Veritasium, where experiments, questions and films turn physics, engineering and everyday puzzles into stories you can follow.
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anu.edu.auANU lecture detailsA personal update on Veritasium’s future
Derek released The Future of Veritasium, a channel update framed around the question of whether he is retiring. He wrote and directed the film.
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Gold for the PFAS investigation
Gregor Čavlović, Derek Muller and Zoe Heron won the 2025 AAAS Kavli Gold Award for Video In-Depth Reporting for How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet.
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Elements of Truth reaches Kickstarter
Veritasium announced that its tabletop game was live on Kickstarter. Elements of Truth asks players to weigh both their answers and how confident they are in them.
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Testing a football spiral with Tom Brady
Derek teamed up with Tom Brady to explore the physics of a thrown football and why even an expert’s spiral wobbles.
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